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  • The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought
    by John C. Greene
    ISBN 081380390X (0-8138-0390-X)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub Professional

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    This text presents an overview of the intellectual revolution that took place in the two centuries which separate Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. It describes the impact of a mechanical view of the natural world, which led to a crumbling of traditional ideas on nature and natural science. [via]

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  • The End of Evolution: A Journey in Search of Clues to the Third Mass Extinction Facing Planet Earth
    by Peter Ward
    ISBN 0553374699 (0-553-37469-9)
    Softcover, Bantam Books

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    In a highly praised study, a paleontologist explores the clues to the extinctions of the past and shows that another great extinction is underway now due to the destruction of the environment. Reprint. PW . [via]

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  • Ward, Peter: The End of Evolution: On Mass Extinctions and the Preservation of Biodiversity
    The End of Evolution: On Mass Extinctions and the Preservation of Biodiversity
    by Peter Ward
    ISBN 0553088122 (0-553-08812-2)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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  • Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
    by Ernst Mayr
    ISBN 067427105X (0-674-27105-X)
    Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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    among his most valuable and durable: contributions that form the basis for much of the contemporary understanding of evolutionary biology. [via]

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  • The Evolution of a Creationist
    by Jobe Martin
    ISBN 0964366509 (0-9643665-0-9)
    Softcover, Biblical Discipleship Ministries

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    In his book, The Evolution of a Creationist, Dr. Jobe Martin chronicles his personal journey from traditional scientist to creationist. He was a traditional evolutionist, but it was his medical and scientific training that would go through an evolution when he began to study animals that challenged the scientific assumptions of his education. Dr. Martin has been exploring the evolution vs. creation debate for the past 20 years. His findings have been fascinating students around the world as he lectures on these remarkable animal designs that cannot be explained by traditional evolution. [via]

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  • The Evolution-creation Struggle
    by Michael Ruse
    ISBN 0674022556 (0-674-02255-6)
    Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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    Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching back through the centuries. The views of both evolutionists and creationists originated as inventions of the Enlightenment--two opposed but closely related responses to a loss of religious faith in the Western world.

    In his latest book, Michael Ruse, a preeminent authority on Darwinian evolutionary thought and a leading participant in the ongoing debate, uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Exploring the underlying philosophical commitments of evolutionists, he reveals that those most hostile to religion are just as evangelical as their fundamentalist opponents. But more crucially, and reaching beyond the biblical issues at stake, he demonstrates that these two diametrically opposed ideologies have, since the Enlightenment, engaged in a struggle for the privilege of defining human origins, moral values, and the nature of reality.

    Highlighting modern-day partisans as divergent as Richard Dawkins and Left Behind authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Ruse's bracing book takes on the assumptions of controversialists of every stripe and belief and offers to all a new and productive way of understanding this unifying, if often bitter, quest.

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  • Allman, John: Evolving Brains
    Evolving Brains
    by John Allman
    ISBN 071676038X (0-7167-6038-X)
    Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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    What's the big deal about big brains? They're a costly enhancement, says neurobiologist John Allman in Evolving Brains. "Animals with big brains are rare," he stresses. "If brains enable animals to adapt to changing environments, why is it that so few animals have large brains? The reason is that big brains are very expensive." He examines the whys and wherefores of large-brain evolution, and draws out the connections between large brains and long lives; shows why major evolutionary advances are often made by small predators; makes you appreciate why mammals, burdened by the cost of warm-bloodedness, were unable to unseat the dinosaurs; and more. So, while large brains such as the ones we humans enjoy may give survival advantages to individuals, some species have done (and did) just fine for millions of years with pea brains.

    Rather than talking only about cells, circuits, neurotransmitters, and genes, or gliding up to the ethereal regions of psychology and philosophy, Allman looks at the whole organism--the "middle-sized, middle-distanced objects," as Willard Van Orman Quine said. Evolving Brains is full of interesting scientific tidbits, only rarely becoming tangled in the thicket of jargon. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]

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  • Extinct Humans
    by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz
    ISBN 0813339189 (0-8133-3918-9)
    Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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    It's time for a hominid family reunion, and anthropologists Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz have brought the scrapbook. Extinct Humans is both an album of knowledge of our ancestors and closely related species and a theoretical reconsideration of the fossil evidence. Tattersall and Schwartz suggest that many more human species existed than we previously thought, and that many of them existed contemporaneously until about 25,000 years ago. Profusely illustrated, the book makes its case well, showing and discussing the evidence and proposing a family history that pulls all the fossils and theories together into a testable whole. The authors have personally investigated every available hominid specimen, and the depth of their knowledge is staggering at times--but their obsession is enlightening and entertaining.

    The introductory history of human taxonomy sets us up for the discussions to follow and reminds us of our tendency to read more into human history than can reasonably be inferred from the evidence. The racist sentiments of 19th-century anthropologists found firm footing in their theories, and we can only wonder what mistakes we're making today. Doing their best to eliminate extraneous details, Tattersall and Schwartz provide a lean, parsimonious theory to guide anthropology into the 21st century, as we try to learn why we're the only ones left. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  • Fatal Flaws: What Evolutionists Don't Want You to Know
    by Hank Hanegraaff
    ISBN 0849915198 (0-8499-1519-8)
    Softcover, W Pub Group

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    Materials drawn from The Face That Demonstrates The Farce of Evolution (ISBN 0-8499-4272-1) Today's generation is bombarded with theories about humankind and its origins. The danger for Christians lies in the wealth of misinformation and miscommunication about simple biblical truths such as:

    • How and when the world began
    • Whether humans are unique or merely a happenstance of evolution
    • The distinction between humankind and other living creatures
    • The evolution of life on this planet
    • The spiritual dimensions of the human soul
    Hank Hanegraff keeps Christians from falling prey to corrupting scientific speculation about the origins of life and reminds us that we are God's creation. This common sense approach puts the concept of evolution in the grasp of everyday Christians and reminds us that ultimately the key to our purpose in this life comes from understanding whose we are and who created us.

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  • The Firmament of Time
    by Loren C. Eiseley
    ISBN 0803267398 (0-8032-6739-8)
    Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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    The quest to understand humankind's place in the universe is an old one, perhaps as old as the human species itself. That quest is tinged with science, but also with magic, for, writes the paleontologist Loren Eiseley (1907-1977), a human being "is both pragmatist and mystic. He has been so since the beginning, and it may well be that the quality of his inquiring and perceptive intellect will cause him to remain so till the end."

    In this lively, literate set of essays, originally delivered in 1959 as a lecture series at the University of Cincinnati, Eiseley traces the history of science, giving special attention to the 18th and 19th centuries, which witnessed the rise of a kind of scientific inquiry that crossed narrow disciplines. Building on the ideas of Newton and Laplace, for instance, the Scottish scientist James Hutton developed the foundations of historical geology; Hutton's doctoral work had not been in physics but physiology, and his dissertation concerned the circulation of the blood, from which he evidently hit on the idea of considering the earth as a living organism. Eiseley moves on to discuss trends in evolutionary thought, putting in good words for such neglected figures as Jean Lamarck, a "much maligned thinker [who] glimpsed ecological change and adjustment before Darwin." Eiseley's explorations end with an admonition that our scientific understanding may well have outpaced our moral evolution, leading to the danger that "we have created an unbearable last idol for our worship"--namely, ourselves. His wise words remain compelling reading today. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  • The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
    by Stanley Greenspan, Stuart G. Shanker
    ISBN 0738206806 (0-7382-0680-6)
    Hardcover, Perseus Books Group

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    In this highly original work, one of the world's most distinguished child psychiatrists together with a philosopher at the forefront of ape and child language research present a startling hypothesis-that the development of our higher-level symbolic thinking, language, and social skills cannot be explained by genes and natural selection, but depend on cultural practices learned anew by each generation over millions of years, dating back to primate and prehuman cultures. Furthermore, for the first time, they present their remarkable research revealing the steps leading to symbolic thinking in the life of each new human infant and show that contrary to now-prevailing theories of Pinker, Chomsky, and others, there is no biological explanation that can account for these distinctly human abilities.Drawing from their own original work with human infants and apes, and meticulous examination of the fossil record, Greenspan and Shanker trace how each new species of nonhuman primates, prehumans, and early humans mastered and taught to their offspring in successively greater degrees the steps leading to symbolic thinking. Their revolutionary theory and compelling evidence reveal the true origins of our most advanced human qualities and set a radical new direction for evolutionary theory, psychology, and philosophy.
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  • Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
    by Michael A. Cremo
    ISBN 0963530984 (0-9635309-8-4)
    Hardcover, Govardhan Hill Pub

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    Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has suppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a "knowledge filter," giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect. [via]

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  • Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
    by Richard L. Thompson, Michael A. Cremo
    ISBN 0892132949 (0-89213-294-9)
    Hardcover, Torchlight Pub

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    Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a "knowledge filter," giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect.
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  • Carroll, Sean B.: From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
    From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
    by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, Scott D. Weatherbee
    ISBN 1405119500 (1-4051-1950-0)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Dixon, Dougal: The Future Is Wild
    Future Is Wild
    by Dougal Dixon, John Adams
    ISBN 1552977234 (1-55297-723-4)
    Softcover, Firefly Books, Limited

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    Imagine the world in the far distant future -- a world without humans, a world so different from ours that, until now, it's been impossible to consider.

    What creatures will roam the land or swim in the oceans? The Future Is Wild brings to life a world of amazing creatures and sets them loose in our imagination.

    Based on fundamental biological and evolutionary principles, they could -- and may yet -- exist:

    5 million years from now.
    It cannot fly, but the carakiller is the Amazon's swiftest predator.
    100 million years from now.
    Toratons, descendents of tortoises, are the biggest animals ever to walk the Earth.
    200 million years from now.
    Warrior terabytes disable victims by spraying chemicals at them.

    In five million years, Northern Europe and North America are covered by ice sheets. Only the hardiest, most adaptable species are able to survive. In 100 million years, Earth is a global hothouse, brimming with life. Another 100 million years and Earth is a single, huge supercontinent and one vast, warm ocean.

    Using state-of-the-art computer animation, The Future Is Wild is able to transform the imagination into actual images, creating a living world of strange creatures and extraordinary habitats.

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  • Genesis Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginnings
    by Henry M. Morris
    ISBN 0801060044 (0-8010-6004-4)
    Hardcover, Baker Pub Group

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    Massive and scholarly, but written for scientific and theological lay persons, this book combines the findings of many disciplines. [via]

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  • Kayzer, Wim: A Glorious Accident: A Scientific Roundtable
    A Glorious Accident: A Scientific Roundtable
    by Wim Kayzer
    ISBN 0716731444 (0-7167-3144-4)
    Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.

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  • Kayzer, Wim: A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle
    A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle
    by Wim Kayzer
    ISBN 0716735644 (0-7167-3564-4)
    Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.

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  • Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
    by Robin Dunbar
    ISBN 0674363361 (0-674-36336-1)
    Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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    What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative species. Psychologist Robin Dunbar looks at gossip as an instrument of social order and cohesion--much like the endless grooming with which our primate cousins tend to their social relationships.

    Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the intensity of these relationships. All their grooming is not so much about hygiene as it is about cementing bonds, making friends, and influencing fellow primates. But for early humans, grooming as a way to social success posed a problem: given their large social groups of 150 or so, our earliest ancestors would have had to spend almost half their time grooming one another--an impossible burden. What Dunbar suggests--and his research, whether in the realm of primatology or in that of gossip, confirms--is that humans developed language to serve the same purpose, but far more efficiently. It seems there is nothing idle about chatter, which holds together a diverse, dynamic group--whether of hunter-gatherers, soldiers, or workmates.

    Anthropologists have long assumed that language developed in relationships among males during activities such as hunting. Dunbar's original and extremely interesting studies suggest otherwise: that language in fact evolved in response to our need to keep up to date with friends and family. We needed conversation to stay in touch, and we still need it in ways that will not be satisfied by teleconferencing, email, or any other communication technology. As Dunbar shows, the impersonal world of cyberspace will not fulfill our primordial need for face-to-face contact.

    From the nit-picking of chimpanzees to our chats at coffee break, from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language offers a provocative view of what makes us human, what holds us together, and what sets us apart.

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  • Barash, David P.: The Hare and the Tortoise: Culture, Biology, and Human Nature
    The Hare and the Tortoise: Culture, Biology, and Human Nature
    by David P. Barash
    ISBN 0670810258 (0-670-81025-8)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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  • Du Nouy, Le Comte: Human Destiny
    Human Destiny
    by Le Comte Du Nouy
    ISBN 0849541271 (0-8495-4127-1)
    Hardcover, Arden Library

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  • Loy, James D.: Humankind Emerging
    Humankind Emerging
    by James D. Loy, Bernard G. Campbell, Bernard Grant Campbell, James Loy
    ISBN 0673523640 (0-673-52364-0)
    Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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  • The Illustrated a Brief History of Time
    by Stephen W. Hawking
    ISBN 0553103741 (0-553-10374-1)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific
    writing. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies.

    The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since then there have been extraordinary advances in the
    technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions
    in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.

    Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this revised and expanded edition Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, revised and updated the original chapters throughout, and written an entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel.

    In addition, to heighten understanding of complex concepts that readers may have found difficult to grasp despite the clarity and wit of Hawking's writing, this edition is magnificently enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular new technological advances such as the Hubble telescope, and computer- generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. Detailed captions clarify these illustrations, enabling readers to experience the vastness of intergalactic space, the nature of black holes, and the microcosmic world of
    particle physics in which matter and antimatter collide.

    A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time is the story of the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. [via]

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  • Introduction to Physical Anthropology
    by Robert Jurmain
    ISBN 0534767656 (0-534-76765-6)
    Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co

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    This successful text, now in its seventh edition, offers a biocultural perspective. It integrates basic evolutionary theory, human genetics, coverage of non-human primates, paleoanthropology, and modern population biology to illustrate the physical and behavioral evolution of human beings. New research integrated throughout the text. All Guest Essays are new. A new chapter has been added on Human Growth and Development and timelines have been added before each hominid chapter. Internet resources have been added to the end of each chapter. [via]

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  • Introduction to Physical Anthropology With Infotrac
    by Harry Nelson, Lynn Kilgore, Wendy Trevathan, Robert Jurmain
    ISBN 0534274781 (0-534-27478-1)
    Softcover, Thomson Learning

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    by Lynn Kilgore, Wendy Trevathan, Robert Jurmain
    ISBN 0534644228 (0-534-64422-8)
    Softcover, Thomson Learning

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    This mainstream, full-color physical anthropology text is the best-selling text in the market! While it continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field of physical anthropology, this is a major revision and the book has shifted emphases in critical areas of biology, including molecular biology and genetics, to reflect the field as it stands today. Now, as a Media Edition, INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY automatically comes with the new BASIC GENETICS CD which responds to growing interest in genetic variation driven by advances in molecular biology enhance. [via]

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  • Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotrac
    by Wenda Trevathan, Lynn Kilgore, Robert Jurmain
    ISBN 053463902X (0-534-63902-X)
    Softcover, Thomson Learning

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    This mainstream, full-color physical anthropology text is the best-selling text in the market! While it continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field of physical anthropology, this is a major revision and the book has shifted emphases in critical areas of biology, including molecular biology and genetics, to reflect the field as it stands today. The excellent coverage of the fossil record and new fossil finds is maintained in this edition; however the authors have worked to take out excessive detail and clarify the presentation of complex material without sacrificing scholarship. They have also worked hard to eliminate any overly academic prose, and to facilitate critical thinking and student involvement with key chapter opening questions and other enhanced pedagogy. Also new in this edition, is a feature covering cutting edge advances in molecular biology, and expanded coverage of population biology and human variation. An outstanding four-color presentation featuring helpful flow charts, visual summaries, and most significant finds tables, along with maps, photo essays, multimedia, and an engaging writing style continue to provide introductory students with the best possible coverage of the field. [via]

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  • Adams, Douglas: Last Chance to See
    Last Chance to See
    by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
    ISBN 051710976X (0-517-10976-X)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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    The best-selling science fiction humorist Douglas Adams accompanies a world-class zoologist on an around-the-world trip in search of exotic, endangered creatures. By turns hilarious and poignant, this is a treat for Adams fans and anyone who cares about Earth's wildlife. [via]

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  • Leakey, Richard: Making of Mankind
    Making of Mankind
    by Richard Leakey
    ISBN 0525150552 (0-525-15055-2)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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  • The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, With Studies of Man and Nature
    by Alfred Russel Wallace
    ISBN 0486201872 (0-486-20187-2)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]

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  • Malik, Kenan: Man, Beast and Zombie
    Man, Beast and Zombie
    by Kenan Malik
    ISBN 0813531225 (0-8135-3122-5)
    Hardcover, Rutgers University Press

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  • Devlin, Keith J.: The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
    The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
    by Keith J. Devlin
    ISBN 0756765927 (0-7567-6592-7)
    Hardcover, Diane Pub Co

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  • The Mind's Past
    by Michael S. Gazzaniga
    ISBN 0520224868 (0-520-22486-8)
    Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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    While we humans point to our big brains and jabber endlessly about how different they make us, other animals seem to remain unimpressed. "Yeah, well, what are they good for?" they'd ask if they could. After all, evolution has been no kinder to us than to them--all of us have had the same amount of time to get where we are, and all of us do just fine eating and reproducing. Are our brains really more valuable to us than teeth to a shark or wings to a bird? This evolutionary view of consciousness could be the key to a better understanding of how we think, and neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga has been helping develop this outlook while working on the frontlines of research. From studies with split-brain patients in the 1960s to the latest tricks of molecular biology today, Gazzaniga shares with us the results of this research and how they are changing the way we think about thinking.

    The title of The Mind's Past refers both to the brain's evolution and its construction of personal identity and memory, which offer clues to the puzzle of consciousness. Gazzaniga's refreshingly straightforward, informal prose asks what our brains are good for and shows that some of our most powerful achievements (like language and statistics) might best be thought of as byproducts of systems designed to help us survive and reproduce. The surprising assertion that most of what we believe to be conscious and willful happens before we are aware of it is made plausible and perhaps comforting in this short, very humanistic book. By careful study and reflection on the mind's past, we might be able to learn something of its future. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  • Peretti, Frank E.: Monster
    Monster
    by Frank E. Peretti
    ISBN 084991180X (0-8499-1180-X)
    Hardcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas

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  • Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
    by Carl Zimmer
    ISBN 074320011X (0-7432-0011-X)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Many books provoke a visceral reaction, but few really make you itch. Science writer Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex does just that, provoking a deliciously creepy sense of paranoia in the reader as it explores a long-misunderstood realm of science. While entomologists love to announce that there are more species of insects than all other animals combined, few parasitologists choose to trump that by reminding us that "parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one." That figure is based on the multicellular chauvinism of the 19th century, which excludes bacteria and fungi from consideration (athlete's foot, anyone?), but Zimmer looks at the E. coli in our guts as well as the worms, flukes, mites, and other critters that earn a healthy living at our expense--and the expense of our domesticated plants and animals.

    The author traveled to Africa to see firsthand the effects of sleeping sickness and river blindness. He learned from physicians and researchers that the parasites that wreak so much havoc are much more than the simple degenerates we've taken them for. Their complex adaptations to their environments--us--are as lovely and awe-inspiring as any eye or wing. The examples of hormonal and other behavioral control of hosts, causing changes in feeding habits and other life essentials, are chilling when personalized. Zimmer knows his subject well, and his writing, while robust and affecting, never descends to the all-too-easy gross-out. You wouldn't expect to find respect for a tapeworm, but Parasite Rex will show you how beautiful Earth's truly dominant life forms are. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  • A Primate's Memoir
    by Robert M. Sapolsky
    ISBN 0743202414 (0-7432-0241-4)
    Softcover, Scribner

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    Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel and beans.

    His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  • A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons
    by Robert M. Sapolsky
    ISBN 0743202473 (0-7432-0247-3)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering his high school principal to let him study Swahili to prepare for travel in Africa. When he set out to conduct fieldwork as a young graduate student, though, Sapolsky found that life among a Kenyan baboon troop was markedly different from his earlier bookish studies. Among other things, he confesses, he had to become a master of shooting anesthetic darts into his subjects with a blowgun to take blood samples, a mastery that required him to become "a leering slinky silent quicksilver baboon terror." He also had to learn how to negotiate the complexities of baboon politics, endure the difficulties of life in the bush, and subsist on cases of canned mackerel and beans.

    His memoir is, in the main, quite humorous, although Sapolsky flings a few darts along the way at the late activist Dian Fossey--who, he hints, may have indirectly caused the deaths of her beloved mountain gorillas by her unstable, irrational dealings with local people--and at local bureaucrats whose interests did not often coincide with those of Sapolsky's wild charges. It is also full of good information on primates and primatology, a subject whose practitioners, it seems, are constantly fighting to save species and ecosystems. "Every primatologist I know is losing that battle," he writes. "They make me think of someone whose unlikely job would be to collect snowflakes, to rush into a warm room and observe the unique pattern under a microscope before it melts and is never seen again." --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  • Refuting Evolution 2: What Pbs and the Scientific Community Don't Want You to Know
    by Jonathan Sarfati, Mike Matthews
    ISBN 0890513872 (0-89051-387-2)
    Softcover, New Leaf Pr

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    Updated in 2011!

    Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, who expertly defended creation in Refuting Evolution (which has sold over 350,000 copies), goes to bat once again in Refuting Evolution 2. Aimed specifically at the evolutionarily biased PBS television series Evolution, Sarfati adroitly makes light of the inaccuracies and fallacies of evolutionary theory, and offers sound creationist interpretation of the facts. This book also updates creationist arguments such as the plesiosaur reeled in by the Japanese fishing boat, the peppered moths, the men have one less rib than women adage, and much more. Here is a priceless resource for those involved in the ongoing creation/evolution debate. [via]

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  • Eldredge, Niles: Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory
    Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory
    by Niles Eldredge
    ISBN 0471303011 (0-471-30301-1)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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  • The Story We Find Ourselves In
    by Brian D. McLaren
    ISBN 0787963879 (0-7879-6387-9)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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    After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found, as more and more Christians are finding, that none of the current strains of Christianity fully describes his own faith. In The Story We Find Ourselves In -- the much anticipated sequel to his award-winning book A New Kind of Christian-- McLaren captures a new spirit of a relevant Christianity, where traditional divisions and doctrinal differences give way to a focus on God and the story of God's love for this world. If you are searching for a deeper life with God-- one that moves beyond the rhetoric of denominational and theological categories-- this delightful and inspiring fictional tale will provide a picture of what it could mean to recapture a joyful spiritual life. [via]

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  • Darwin, Charles: The Structure And Distribution of Coral Reefs
    The Structure And Distribution of Coral Reefs
    by Charles Darwin
    ISBN 1419184350 (1-4191-8435-0)
    Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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  • The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
    by Melvin Konner
    ISBN 0805072799 (0-8050-7279-9)
    Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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    Why do we behave as we do, and how are we to judge this behaviour in terms of right and wrong, good and evil, natural and unnatural? On the answers to these questions, whole systems of religion, law and government have been founded. Now, science has begun to address these same questions, offering data that is both exciting and controversial. Specifically concerned with the biological bases of human behaviour and human emotions, this book is a treatment of materials that have often been misused and exploited for questionable ends. [via]

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  • Perloff, James: Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism
    Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism
    by James Perloff
    ISBN 0966816005 (0-9668160-0-5)
    Softcover, Refuge Books

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  • MacDonald, David: The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores
    The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores
    by David MacDonald
    ISBN 0563208449 (0-563-20844-9)
    Hardcover, Bbc Pubns

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  • Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
    by Robert L. Carroll
    ISBN 0716718227 (0-7167-1822-7)
    Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.

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    "Carroll has to his credit an immense amount of useful labour in writing the book and will probably corner the market for a vertebrate paleontology text for the rest of this century." Nature [via]

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